'When Grandmama Fell Off The Boat' is an anthology of the hilarious creations of Harry Graham, one of the early 20th century's wittiest writers of light verse, stage show lyrics and articles. During his lifetime, Harry Graham had an outstanding reputation and was compared to Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and W. S. Gilbert by The Times. He has also been credited with introducing 'sick' verse to America. Although the ever popular Ruthless Rhymes was republished in 1996, 'When Grandmama Fell Off The Boat' remains the only comprehensive selection of Graham's verse to have appeared since his death. The book is elegantly designed, the text complemented by delightful and amusing period illustrations by Fish, Fougasse, Ridgewell and others. The anthology also boasts an introduction by the late Miles Kington, as well as a foreword by Graham's daughter and fellow writer, Virginia. Graham's black humour is underpinned by his ability to relate common episodes with a sardonic twist. A father irritated by his crying infant finds peace and quiet by popping him in the Frigidaire and a man whose wife elopes with the chauffeur despairs of ever starting the car. These darkly comic soupcons of English life are timeless in their appeal.

When Grandmama Fell Off the Boat: The Best of Harry Graham Inventor of Ruthless Rhymes (Methuen Humour Classics)

Graham, Harry

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

For readers with an aversion to syrupy verse: a delightful, inexpensively priced collection of vintage verse with an amusingly irreverent mood. 49 examples of rare 19th-century black humor€”each accompanied by clever drawings€”will delight readers with their stinging humor and outrageous wit.

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes and More Ruthless Rhymes

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Dover Publications

Head waiters of White Horse Inn have found that to fall in love with the attractive young widow who owns the establishment is a swift and certain route to dismissal. Yet none have been able to resist Josepha; least of all Leopold, the present incumbent. She, however, pines for Valentine Sutton, a regular visitor from England, and is resolutely blind to all the evidence that his thoughts for her are no more than warm friendship. Valentine's annual visit is at hand, and by the same steamer arrive Ebenezer Grinkle, a self-made lad from Lancashire with plenty of brass, his sweet young daughter Ottoline, an impoverished Professor Hinzel and his gawky, lisping, but appealing daughter Gretel, and a dapper young man, Sigismund Smith (of Hammersmith). Sub-plots abound as Smith and Grinkle discover they are hated business rivals, Sutton (who is Smith's solicitor) falls in love with Ottoline, and Smith with Gretel, while Leopold repeatedly threatens to resign and wish them all a last "Good-bye!" The subsequent arrival of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor serves at first only to add to the acrimonious chaos, but finally his kindly understanding and wisdom do much to bring about the statutory happy ending.

White Horse Inn

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

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Fiscal Ballads

History

World

Trieste Publishing

Ruthless Rhymes

Edward Arnold

This anthology is a collection of rhymes by the Edwardian humourist, Harry Graham. The comic light verse is illustrated with period line drawings.

When Grandmama Fell Off the Boat: The Best of Harry Graham Inventor of Ruthless Rhymes

Poetry

Salem House Pub.

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

Legare Street Press

Misrepresentative Men

BiblioLife

Perverted Proverbs; a Manual of Immorals for the Many

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Misrepresentative Women

Groesbeck, Den Sayre

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